hunger

Mali: Families stock up on food October 11, 2012

Mercy Corps teams are distributing emergency monthly vouchers to families in northern Mali that allow them to buy food on the local market. The money gets them a month's supply of the necessary basics they choose; most are stocking up on oil and rice.

Mali: Emergency food aid is just the start October 11, 2012

Mercy Corps teams are now providing desperately needed assistance in Mali to those who are struggling to find enough to eat.

Ethiopia: Feeding hungry babies October 11, 2012

In Ida Adays village, our mobile health team weighed seven-month-old Nasteho Mohamed and found her to be malnourished. She weighed only 4kg, but at her age should be somewhere around 4.8kg.

Mali, Niger: What you want to know about the Sahel hunger crisis August 16, 2012

The hunger crisis in the Sahel is not an immediate emergency that gets splashed across the evening news. Instead, the tragic circumstances of drought and failed harvests have been building since the beginning of the year.

Ethiopia: One year later, helping children survive in the Horn of Africa July 25, 2012

You might hear it called a “slow onset” emergency because, unlike the sudden strike of an earthquake, drought builds gradually. But don’t bother telling that to the mothers whose children are hanging on by a thread; slow isn’t the word they would choose. Grueling, they might say. Nerve-wracking.

Niger: Feeding families in the Sahel July 12, 2012

As the hunger crisis continues to worsen across the Sahel, even emergency food for malnourished children is not going far enough.

United States: We Can Be Heroes exhibit opens eyes to Horn of Africa crisis June 28, 2012

Niger: Life without rain June 11, 2012

“It’s hot!” I said. “No it’s not," replied one of our Niger team members. "You should have been here in late March or April. That’s when it was really hot.” “Really? So 106 degrees Fahrenheit isn’t as hot as it gets?”